My rig is less than a year old, and the CPU cores of my i9 processor are all stuck at 4100 MHz. These numbers are very high at idle. I have changed the Windows power settings from Balanced to Power Saver and this had no effect. Since the motherboard was made by Asus, I have uninstalled AI Suite III thinking I maybe had accidentally changed something when adjusting the fan speeds recently. Virus scans have also been negative and Task Manager shows nothing unusual in the way of CPU utlitization.
The system has never been overclocked and the BIOS settings have all always been set to default.
A few things about the system's recent history may relate. In the past month or so the system crashed three times and got a blue screen while playing Wow. The error message was: DRIVER_IRLQ _NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. What failed: afd.sys
Also, a few days ago, thinking something was up with my system because of the blue screens, I discovered that three days earlier a new BIOS had become available on the motherboard support page. I promptly got my hands on it and installed it via a USB stick.
Last night, while looking at HWMonitor, I noticed the high clock speeds, which coincidentally is occurring with high CPU core temperatures, maxing in the range of 92 or so degrees, with idle temperatures of around 70 or so. I have no idea how long the system has been flying with these high cpu frequencies, but suspect the problem may be related to the new BIOS and some kind of problem with it, but I am not by any means sure if this is the case.
I have also since maxed out the case fan speeds, having them blast at full speed which does lower the temperatures to 60 or so. However, this is freaking me out, so I have since stopped using this rig altogether.
The motherboard is an ROG Rampage VI Extreme Omega, the CPU is a 9980xe, and the CPU cooler is an Asus Ryujin water cooler.
Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated.
The system has never been overclocked and the BIOS settings have all always been set to default.
A few things about the system's recent history may relate. In the past month or so the system crashed three times and got a blue screen while playing Wow. The error message was: DRIVER_IRLQ _NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. What failed: afd.sys
Also, a few days ago, thinking something was up with my system because of the blue screens, I discovered that three days earlier a new BIOS had become available on the motherboard support page. I promptly got my hands on it and installed it via a USB stick.
Last night, while looking at HWMonitor, I noticed the high clock speeds, which coincidentally is occurring with high CPU core temperatures, maxing in the range of 92 or so degrees, with idle temperatures of around 70 or so. I have no idea how long the system has been flying with these high cpu frequencies, but suspect the problem may be related to the new BIOS and some kind of problem with it, but I am not by any means sure if this is the case.
I have also since maxed out the case fan speeds, having them blast at full speed which does lower the temperatures to 60 or so. However, this is freaking me out, so I have since stopped using this rig altogether.
The motherboard is an ROG Rampage VI Extreme Omega, the CPU is a 9980xe, and the CPU cooler is an Asus Ryujin water cooler.
Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated.
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